Time magazine owner rips into Kamala Harris for ignoring MULTIPLE requests to sit for an interview
Kamala Harris is facing the wrath of TIME’s owner after she refused to participate in an interview with the renowned news magazine.
The vice president has declined to participate in an interview with several traditional media outlets since taking over Joe Biden’s campaign and leading the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket, and has faced widespread criticism for her sparse media strategy.
Marc Benioff wrote about his disappointment with X, claiming that Time Magazine had reached out several times for an interview with the presidential candidate.
“Despite multiple requests, TIME has not been granted an interview with Kamala Harris – unlike every other presidential candidate,” the owner wrote on Sunday.
Benioff included a link to interviews Time Magazine conducted with former President Donald Trump and President Biden when he was still running for re-election in 2024.
Time owner Marc Benioff (pictured) is furious that Vice President Kamala Harris has rejected repeated requests from the magazine to appear for an interview before the 2024 presidential election
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“We believe in transparency and publish every interview in full,” he added. “Why doesn’t the vice president interact with the public on the same level?”
The charges against Harris’ refusal to interview with the magazine come as CBS News faces intense backlash for positively editing the candidate’s 60 Minutes interview.
A Time article published on October 10 titled What Kind of President Would Kamala Harris Be? notes that the vice president has “declined repeated requests for an interview for this story.”
Trump, on the other hand, spoke about his policy vision for 90 minutes with a TIME reporter in two interviews. Biden spoke to TIME for a while before dropping out of the race,” they added in that article.
Critics, especially pro-MAGA social media accounts, have questioned Harris’ media strategy ahead of the election.
There are only 22 days until the election next month and Harris has not yet made the full push on media appearances as most candidates do in the run-up to Election Day.
VP Harris’s media strategy has been questioned by critics after she rejected a number of mainstream and traditional media outlets in favor of more alternative media, such as the raunchy, sex-oriented podcast Call Her Daddy.
The VP has conducted some questionable interviews, such as with the raunchy and sex-oriented podcast Call Her Daddy. And she has forgone some more traditional interviews, such as with Time Magazine or older television outlets, and instead appeared on radio shows, such as with Howard Stern or Charlamagne Tha God, whom she will sit down with in Detroit on Tuesday.
But Harris has agreed to a select number of traditional, sit-down interviews — such as on 60 Minutes and on CNN, where she appeared alongside running mate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Although he declined a Time interview, Harris did post a photo shoot for possibly fashion’s most famous magazine.
Vogue Magazine published their glowing profile of the vice president on Friday, revealing a long story of what life has been like for her since Biden dropped out and she took over his campaign.
Harris sat for an interview and took part in a photo shoot with famed photographer Annie Leibovitz at the vice president’s home on October 7.
The cover describes Harris as “the candidate for our times” and shows her wearing an Gabriela Hearst suit and $800 Tiffany earrings.